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here moscow time from a love triangle to a pentagon problem the scandal brought down cia chief david petraeus now drags america's commander in afghanistan with washington claiming it did nothing. britain squares up to three of the world's top earning corporations are accused of skirting around billions in taxes. and syria's new patchwork opposition fails to get unanimous backing among arab states that meet doubts that the forum for blocs consoled lisa over the syrian people's interests. even if you just joined us this is our team our names kevin zero in first this hour
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more heartache for washington having lost the director of the cia to an affair last week at no risk losing his top commander in afghanistan two to the same scandal general john allen has been accused of sending inappropriate e-mails to jill kelley one of the women whose implication that the downfall of one of america's most distinguished offices art is going to teach you can there with more on the passions at the pentagon. this scandal is just getting worse and reminds more of a t.v. drama possibly with many episodes the latest episode of the investigation into the affair between former cia director general petraeus and his biographer is the revelation of another extramarital affair now between the top american and nato commander in afghanistan general john allen and a woman named jewel kelley the very woman who officials say general petraeus is mistress paula broadwell saw as a rival for her affections with general petraeus and wrote threatening e-mails to
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dead jill kelley was the woman who opened this can of worms when she went to the f.b.i. in the first place and asked them to investigate the harassing anonymous e-mails that she'd been receiving the investigation led to paula broadwell's mailbox and apparently her mailbox revealed her affair with the former cia director few words about jill kelley got i feel like i'm retelling a new exciting t.v. show but reality can be more implausible so jill kelley a mother of three a housewife living in florida they've apparently been friends with the patrol uses for for years and she turned out to be not the most intelligent woman because when she asked the f.b.i. to look into the harassing e-mails that she'd been receiving she somehow forgot that her own mailbox was also full of quote unquote inappropriate e-mails from the commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan general john allen also a married official said there were somewhere from twenty to thirty thousand pages of those e-mails of course they did not reveal the content of those e-mails they
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just said there was inappropriate communication between the two this may sound like a huge manyfold family drama but it's more serious than that and a military lawyer adultery can be a crime and punishment can be time in prison although general allen will remain the commander in afghanistan defense secretary panetta said that he had asked president obama to delay the general's nominee. to be the commander of american forces in europe and the supreme allied commander of nato so john allen would be the third of ghana's then general who fell from grace so abruptly and so shockingly too many first it was general stanley mcchrystal resigned when a magazine quoted him saying unflattering things about the administration and then general petraeus over a woman and now general john allen three of the biggest names in the war in afghanistan a correspondent in washington there were former five intelligence officer told us
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the patrols don't fool could be the result of infighting within the intelligence community. it's beginning to look like a very well written drama really interesting sense but now a bomb. to prove his final exam time they can let you use the cream to tweak the old regime. generals who sort of move through the revolving door in military positions of the intelligence that was one of the points it took him to get much coverage about the triumph and that is the fact that he has been very much on a really important really pushing for the idea that there should be some sort of military action against iraq so there may well have been some sort of maneuvering behind the scenes by other senior intelligence officer to try and get rid of some of that now with he is not tied in with peddling a line which they don't agree with and which undermines their national interest. well we'll keep you posted now this high stakes love story unfold it goes keep press for is what r.t. dot com there you'll find a poll about what you think of the timing of it all takes taken out of you have so
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far the story telling us the vote so far shows that just over a third of you think the scandals of a manufactured effort to prevent trains from testifying on the big garden killings they're less than a quarter say it's part of a drive you think to really hold the military's leadership if if you believe the election was at the root of it all and that affair was hushed up until about who was reelected by the same number say we don't see a link at all and that alternately was betrayed his own space. don't you think dot com. next hard pressed for cash and hurting from a stereotype britain is turning on tax avoiders to help make up its budget shortfall and first in the crosshairs a google amazon and starbucks the tax man wants to question them over owning billions in revenue in the u.k. but only paying peppercorn taxes if any earlier colleague mary sue shows spoke to a poly boy for more on this latest initiative. these are three companies that dominate the u.k. economy they have billions of pounds worth of turnover the but it looks like they
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pay very little corporation tax to show for it and now employees are outraged by the fact that through very legal loopholes these companies that they say are acting in an immoral way are managing to dodge millions and billions of pounds worth of tax every single year and they want to try and put a stop to it now what about i mean the companies we talk about this being called it moral just how did the companies money used to contribute so little or nothing to the treasury without breaking the law certainly a big mystery well it's all a case of financial trickery rory it's about getting clever accountants that find countries with more favorable tax rates to base a u.k. headquarters and so for example google base themselves in the republic of ireland that's way that that's where they sell their advertising space from starbucks abased in holland and amazon based in luxembourg so they manage to pay very little
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taxes through channeling their revenue through these countries or thoughts of public reaction sure surely surely there must be a people the public or even m.p.'s who outspoken about this unfortunately rory for much of the ordinary public here in the u.k. it's just not funny anymore they say that you know austerity measures are taking hold that the public spending cuts in the public sent are really making life difficult for people and we spoke to a few people out on the streets and this is what they told us if we're paying tax on things like. that we have to foot the bill for that i guess we're paying tax on coffee as well why should they not pay the tax that we're paying them to pay i guess it's up to something close to really. like it would be time to take the things that. we think it's fair but you still buy starbucks it's not mine. this is some activists have already suggested a plan to to highlight what they're calling this
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a moral behavior certainly of at least one of the companies or what exactly has been suggested so far. yes well this. anti cuts group these campaigners against austerity measures here in the u.k. they say that in december they're going to launch a national day of action against starbucks what they're going to do is they're going to occupy the multitude of starbucks coffee houses that we have here in london you walk down the street you see them everywhere and they're going to make them into the homeless shelter they're going to make them into refuges into creches because that they say that starbucks have these immoral tactics and they need to give back to society so they're going to be occupying these coffee houses but indeed it's not just the anti campaigners there's a general feeling among the british public that people want to boycott these enlargement multinational companies because of their immoral schemes in the way that they do you just take from the public and very little back into the u.k.
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economy which as we know is struggling at the moment and really for people here in the u.k. very difficult to make ends meet at the moment so this is a topic that's rousing a lot of anger from the british public while still the u.k. is well. under attack accused of manipulating prices more on that in our business bulletin but later. what's at stake right now is the fairness of consumer prices for gas and the trustworthiness of industry regulators because right now what's being investigators in the parent case of price manipulation we'll tell you more about that and around twenty minutes. china's set to name its next top politicians including the man expected to succeed the country's current leader. the communist party congress is in its final days in beijing focused on people you can only grow through several challenges ahead china's will soon grow. to a point where even its top economic and political rival the us will have to seek a cut a compromise that's the view of economics professor shuji from britain's knotting
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at university who spoke to. the country him not often but through our cooperation and i did not just buy into this you find a way to go to the end. have a more integrated order in terms of economic environment by the new country mr will continue to have differences in terms of political or pinioned in. the international relations. economy. is two countries have to it depends on each other in terms of trade investment and in the logic hole. so that it will be very interesting to see the little country with equal weight in the core of it sitting here is tough when china is about the size of the united or even to all we take the united states so if you have a big balance of economy between the east and the west but they will continue with
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these kinds of ideology of ideologies call differences between the two countries. ahead the syria syria conflict is sending strong ripples across the border were reporting lebanon which turned into a sectarian powder keg because of the bloody civil war next door step short in it and also told by turkey to tighten the screws on kurdish rebels weighing up for a vial of capital punishment we've got live comment on this a couple of stories after this break. a sacred place rising out of the waters of the lake the long ministry is home to one hundred fifty orthodox monks mostly younger than thirty five and they've come from many different places and backgrounds to live in isolation here oh spiritual life it takes so many hours on the road to becoming
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a monk requires both hard work and religious telly cation. alexei wants to become and herds cattle as part of his preparation. however these beasts get a musical company. sound sequences you know they react to the sound signals the flutes the herders had in the old days they needed them it wasn't just a fun thing but these meadows didn't come naturally requiring decades of composting to bring the soil up to farming standard this island is mostly rock. the soil here is very thin on the monks can't just get more of it because they're surrounded by the lake so they have to work very hard in order to provide whatever food they need. they grow their own crops found their own fish and repair their own churches. but the central purpose of alarm has always been religious the main ministry surrounded by smaller priories spread through the many archipelago the
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monks here know their existence is a little different from that of other hmong streets here we are out of the way and we do have. bill creams and song times tourists as well as. away. from quickly to use is hardly. disturbed. and is that combination of high religion and down to earth hard work that motivates these men.
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browsers. may miss it in reason manning has they care my daddy. a lot of those. there's a famous reuse benson played his own may seem very manly ransom business. college national backing for syria's rebels potentially bidding war for an arms and cash is something the newly formed opposition coalition is struggling to achieve the goals
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one accuser pushed for the new set up russia to proclaim it as the sole syrian people's representative but the wider arab league blog doesn't see it that way now middle east correspondent paula sleep with the latest. the six gulf states have formally recognize the new syrian coalition as the official representative of the syrian people the foreign minister of qatar has said that this recognition will remove obstacles that will ultimately be able to secure arms for syrian rebels the coalition does look set to set up a so-called government in exile if indeed this happens this will have the backing of western as well as arab states there are fears that this could set up a libya style scenario what we saw in libya was opposition fighters setting themselves up as an alternative government that got the backing of the international community and ultimately led to nato airstrikes and foreign intervention so there are concerns that that might happen here in syria there was
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also a number question about just how feasible the first opposition group is really we're looking at a patchwork of various organizations here it is made up of rebel fighters as well as dissidents and people from all backgrounds and political affiliations it has been marred by bickering over the past few weeks and months indeed this is an organization that does not have internal unity what is important is that the arab league that is notably one of the most important bodies in the arab world has hesitancy welcomed this new coalition it does say that it is a primary to negotiate it but it has not gone as far as to say that it is the legitimate representative of the syrian people well there's been some movement on that story actually speaking there we've heard in the last few minutes now that france has become the first european state to recognize the syrian opposition coalition as a sole representative of the people it seems president
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a lot is said that once the syrian national council forms a government the issue of supply will be looked at that will bring you more on that as we get it so that lines just come through so france has become the first european state to to recognize the syrian opposition council as the sole representative of the people because some sort from political rock releases syrians would never want an opposition no form of the gulf an american pressure to grab power. i'm glad to see that this collection of corrupt dictatorships is instructing the syrian people as to who their representatives ought to be how about the representatives of the saudi arabian people of the bahraini and people or people of qatar or charge of the arrest of these dictatorships so what would an outrage that they're the course they're just a subsidiary of the pentagon and of the cia this is part of the long term plot by the u.s. by britain by france by turkey by israel and i'm no fan of assad i might say but.
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good things are watch words after gadhafi in libya they're going to be much worse if they succeed in overthrowing assad let's opposition group was trained in turkey at various american air force bases there many of them are libyan al-qaeda types they're from other countries they're not syrians they're foreign fighters whatever is wrong with assad i think that the people of syria tend not to want outsiders to be telling them what to do they fear these so-called rebels just as much as they fear their own government and my guess is they don't want foreigners occupying and running their country. syria's bloody standoff exposed deep political and sectarian cracks in neighboring lebanon with gun battles springing of daily in the northern part of the state. reports from a nation hit by fierce clashes between warring groups. they share a determination to fight to the death but this isn't syria it's lebanon the conflict has crept across the border leading to death and destruction here in tripoli we're standing here you can see the almost complete destruction of
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a home and this is literally the front line of the. neighborhood in tripoli right across the street out the window that's the neighborhood where the largely sunni community have been has been clashing with the largely allawi community that is based here it's actually not very safe for us to stand here we've been told by the owner of this apartment that they're still taking casualties and that the fighting could really flare out but at any moment out of range of the snipers we speak to the homeowner and allawi militia man the misery has only hardened his resolve to fight against neighbors who he says pose a mortal threat. these people have one objective and that is to have an islamic emirate in the north and militia organizations like hezbollah we won't give up arms as long as thought exists. this is been a flashpoint for years a sunni stronghold next door to an alawite community but strife in syria has unleashed new sectarian tensions leading to the worst fighting since lebanon's
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civil war ali food is the spokesperson for the arab democratic party which has its own loyal militia here in. the asad regime falls this area will turn into a dangerous public kerrick this is what we're trying to avoid. i asked him whether disarming might be an option to avoid more bloodshed. but we're not afraid while we were filming the lebanese army was overseeing a shaky cease fire but the sandbags are still out awaiting the next battle where in the neighborhood as you can see behind me that is the area where the fire was coming for down here people have been killed on both sides of the steps you can see this is one of the fighting positions this salafist street preacher has a sunni militia here in tripoli as babel to ben a slum to have you found. showing off his guns he says he's ready to use them again at a moment's notice. we are ready to defend ourselves and to fight fire with. sheikh
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mansour he accuses the syrian government of fermenting violence against the sunni's and that's why he says support for the uprising goes far beyond empathy. systems to the free syrian army would do it within our capabilities if it is possible to give them a gun and some bullets then we're happy. however the syrian war plays out it's clear that the outcome will have repercussions far beyond its borders in tripoli the battle lines have been drawn and neither side seems willing to back down lucy catherine r.t. tripoli lebanon. turkey is considering bringing about the death penalty it stands simply it seems to tackle violent kurdish separatism abolished capital punishment a decade ago when it launched its attempts to join the european union to talk more about this stone new spokes person for the think hamilton coalition to stop war can even to you thanks for being on the line with us do you think bringing back the
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death penalty will be enough to help quell the upsurge in kurdish attacks let's focus on what we think it's for first of all. well the short answer is that executing nationalist militants is now a report and to a national movement anywhere in the world the only way to. achieve a reconciliation is through a political settlement and an accommodation to the demands of a national movement. that's what the top brass in turkey of course i would have thought know that so why are they bringing it in do you think going to polishing capital punishment was one of the key conditions of course for turkey to join the e.u. could be read into it therefore that maybe turkey is no longer concerned about getting the blocs membership and again i go back to the question why. that's a good question most analysts suspected that the reason that turkey initially allowed itself to become a cat's paw for nato inside syria was to curry favor with the great powers of
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europe and try and get admitted finally to the european union but now it appears that the more that turkey becomes involved in meddling in its neighbors of sarah's the more of that mr editor wants government get stuck deeper and deeper in the quagmire and the best example of that is the kurdish issue because the turkish government is dealing with its own kurdish insurgency and nationalist movement and eastern turkey and along the iraqi border and the more that thirty wraps up the attack on syria the more that the the circuit the kurdish militants revved up their insurgency against turkey and the more people get killed the more that some turks call for the restoration of the death penalty even mr airline has been sinking the boat it recently according to these reports but really what. it should mean to mr airline is that he should probably scale down the effort of his
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meddling in syria mend fences and trying to deal with his own domestic problems rather than causing bigger problems for him self domestically by messing around in the kurdish issue and in syria yeah i mean to basically what sort of support does he have and will the people back to this move to bring about capital punishment for example. i doubt it i think that. these kind of simplistic solutions never result and kind of social peace and and good government that people are looking for. in fact be. the be a meddling in the internal affairs of syria is causing airlines other problems too including the increasing criticism from the media which the government has
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responded to by arresting a record number of journalists in fact i believe he has the dubious distinction of having the most journalists in jail in the world. and at the same time more and more people are peace loving service march in the streets when he goes about shelling its neighbor syria so that all these kinds of all these issues are boiling inside turkey because turkey is opening itself up to these divisions. due to its meddling inside of syria and could you come with a drug free speech there at the bottom but it was government. from some rights groups who accuse it of a crackdown on pro could reach media begs the question why would be an empty press compound in what is claimed to be a democratic state. well that's that's quite a question of hypocrisy. you can't be
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a democratic state you can't get into the european union if you don't have freedom of the press but if you're waging a war against your own against your neighbor on the one side and against a sizable minority of your own nation rather than having a negotiated settlement then you are then you find yourself in a military emergency where things like. freedom of the press and civil disobedience civil dissent are no longer allowed so it's quagmire that mr airline is getting himself into over his meddling in his neighbor's business so thanks for the lines miles and that's pretty shapes it can stuff from the coalition to stop the war on people think that. portugal there isn't. a state of the optimism the german chancellor pose simply reassure us but yes they say pay cuts and tax hikes though painful we'll say it that and republicans are social full
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